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Marcia & Philip Rothblum Foundation at a glance

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Marcia & Philip Rothblum Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$443kEducation$264kInternational$194kCrime & Legal$121kArts & Culture$115kCivil Rights$101kFood & Nutrition$84kHuman Services$72kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UJA-FEDERATION OF NY$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATIONAL CRITTENTON FOUNDATION: $8k → 12%NATIONAL CRITTENTON FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%NATIONAL CRITTENTON FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%NATIONAL CRITTENTON FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%NATIONAL CRITTENTON FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%NATIONAL CRITTENTON FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%NATIONAL CRITTENTON FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%SAFE HORIZON: $5k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $5k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $5k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $5k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $5k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $3k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $500 → 17%HELP US ADOPTORG: $20k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $5k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $5k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $5k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $5k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $5k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $5k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $3k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $2k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $2k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
CO
MD
TN
DC
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 59 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

59 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
21

Total granted

$1.6M
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+6%

Still filing today

68%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalHealthHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TE
    THE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $125k · revenue +3%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $53k · revenue +34%
  • NY
    NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $48k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • HI
    HELPUSADOPTORG INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +291%
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -21%
  • LH
    LENOX HILL HOSPITAL (IN HONOR OF DR GARY HORBAR)
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
3
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
Jobsfirstnyc

Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.

Youth Development
6
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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7
Justice Innovation Inc

The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.

Crime & Legal
8
Sesame Workshop

Sesame workshop's mission is to help kids grow smarter, stronger and kinder. (see schedule o)

Arts & Culture
9
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
10
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
11
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
12
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Yorkers for Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Guttmacher Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 81 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
40/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC: $125,000 · OtherTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INCADL: $120,000 · OtherADLPLANNED PARENTHOOD NATIONAL FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $99,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD NATIONAL FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD NEW YORK CITY INCTEEN ADVOCATES PROGRAM: $60,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD NEW YORK CITY INCTEEN ADVOCATES PROGRAMPLANNED PARENTHOOD NASSAU COUNTY INCTEEN ADVOCATES & PLAN VAN: $60,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD NASSAU COUNTY INCTEEN ADVOCATES & PLAN VANACLU: $44,500 · OtherVISITING NURSE SERVICE NY (IN MEMORY OF MARCIA ROTHBLUM): $42,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (NURSING SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND): $40,000 · OtherUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $53,000 · Other+39 more: $373,500 · Other+39 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC: $140,000 · InternationalInternational …THE WATER PROJECT INC: $41,000 · InternationalTHE WATER PROJ…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL …COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $7,500 · International+2 more: $8,000 · InternationalHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HORIZON INC: $28,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL FLORENCE CRITTENTON MISSION: $27,500 · Human ServicesHELPUSADOPTORG INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE: $5,000 · Human ServicesGRACE OUTREACH INC: $44,000 · EducationSUMMER ON THE HILL INC: $30,000 · EducationPREP FOR PREP: $12,500 · EducationSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $12,500 · EducationNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $32,500 · Arts & CultureLOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM: $20,000 · Arts & CultureWNET: $17,500 · Arts & CultureART START INC: $17,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $33,000 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $22,500 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $12,500 · HealthScleroderma Research Foundation: $5,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $2,000 · HealthNEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION: $47,500 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $15,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $9,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,017,000International$222,000Human Services$119,500Education$99,000Arts & Culture$97,000Health$80,500Civil Rights$71,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $140,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $53,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION: $47,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE OUTREACH INC: $44,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetTHE WATER PROJECT INC: $41,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $33,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $32,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMER ON THE HILL INC: $30,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $29,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE HORIZON INC: $28,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FLORENCE CRITTENTON MISSION: $27,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST MARYS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $23,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHELPUSADOPTORG INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUDDY PROGRAM INC: $17,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWNET: $17,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetART START INC: $17,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $12,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetScleroderma Research Foundation: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHADD INC CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH ATTENTION DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORKERS FOR CHILDREN INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetScratch Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuttmacher Institute Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRACE OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WATER PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds SUMMER ON THE HILL INC ↗
  • Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
  • Who funds SAFE HORIZON INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FLORENCE CRITTENTON MISSION ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARYS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
  • Who funds LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds HELPUSADOPTORG INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds WNET ↗
  • Who funds ART START INC ↗
  • Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Tides FoundationThe New York Communit…The Chicago Community…National Philanthropi…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…
Tides FoundationCA15.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Marcia & Philip Rothblum Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marcia & Philip Rothblum Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 31%
  • Chadd Inc Children and Adults With Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: 31% of income from government
  • National Florence Crittenton Mission: 24% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Marcia & Philip Rothblum Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 81 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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